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bridge

A stealth firewall provides a way to gain access to filtering Internet traffic from a position of stealth. A bridge provides stealth because it does not use an IP Address to function but rather operates at the Layer 2 of the OSI model meaning that without an IP Address the firewall is inaccessible and hidden from all would be attackers.